Cultural Post #5- 110

[Abigail Sohkhlet]

I realized that Korean pop music industry was not a good enough topic for my cultural project. After having watched everyone else’s presentation, I realized it did not represent Korean culture as well because K Pop music has not been practiced for as long as my peer’s practices and objects (like food and traditional clothes) to reflect the historical culture of Korea. My peers looked at culture from a more historic point of view whereas I looked at culture in a modern way. I suppose my perception of culture may be a bit off. I decided to change it and focus on classical Korean music instead, specifically musical instruments. I will focus primarily on stringed instruments alone because this subcategory is further divided into plucked, bowed and struck type of string instruments. Through this topic, I hope to understand how they used these instruments in the past and in modern times. I will look at where they were used and how it affected social events. I want to see who were allowed to play these instruments in the past (whether SES and other social factors affected who was allowed to play). I want to then compare the then and now usage and sounds of these instruments.